Gothic Sponge
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Thu Nov-18-04 02:19 PM
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Anyone remember Space 1999? |
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I was a fan when i was a little kid. I didn't see the show for many years. When it came out on DVD, i bought a few episodes. It's not as good as i remember....Oh well.
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Thu Nov-18-04 02:26 PM
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Let us all give a moment of silence for 70s sci-fi tv...
Space 1999 Battlestar Galactica Buck Rogers Bionic woman Six million dollar man Wonder Woman
alas, we knew them well...
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Thu Nov-18-04 07:00 PM
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6. Watched all of those shows! |
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Pretty much watched anything that was sci fi back in the 70s.
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Technowitch
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Thu Nov-18-04 02:34 PM
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2. Yup. Hokey as hell, but I watched every episode. |
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Thought about getting the DVDs... then I remembered those Rudi Geinreich (sp?) polyester outfits... and the sheer implausibility of the whole premise, that I decided against it.
I watched ANY SF I could find on TV, no matter how bad.
U.F.O. Space 1999 Battlestar Galactica Buck Rogers
Even anthology stuff, like Night Gallery and so on.
I remember commenting once to a former spouse, "Sitcoms, cop shows, lawyer shows, doctor shows... there isn't anything else!"
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Thu Nov-18-04 03:24 PM
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3. I used to love Space 1999, |
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I can even remember the theme music. My older brother used to always call it "Space Big Numbers".
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Thu Nov-18-04 03:39 PM
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4. Lots of fond memories... |
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I guess I wasn't old enough then to know how campy it all was.
U.F.O., Six Million Dollar Man... those were the days.
:dem:
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Thu Nov-18-04 04:30 PM
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I loved it when I was a kid, but I think I liked the toys better. I rented it when it came out and sort of was aghast at how bad it was.
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Fri Nov-19-04 01:20 AM
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Edited on Fri Nov-19-04 01:22 AM by bullimiami
i really loved :: The Invaders....A Quinn Martin Production....Epiloge....
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Sun Nov-21-04 01:19 AM
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12. I used to love The Invaders |
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Fri Nov-19-04 03:21 AM
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8. Yeah, but when I was a kid... |
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...I used to drool over those 1999 metal cast toys in the high end toy store that I couldn't afford.
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Fri Nov-19-04 03:34 AM
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I SO wanted one of those Corgi model Eagles. No way I could afford one though, at that age.
They even had the cargo variant, with the nuclear waste bins.
Alas...
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Fri Nov-19-04 06:06 AM
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Sun Nov-21-04 12:37 AM
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Haven't seen it in years. I suspect that you are right, it will not live up to the image created in the mind of a ten year old.
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Sun Nov-21-04 06:48 PM
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A toy eagle and action figures and everything. I even had a record album (you know the prehistoric ancestor to CD's) with some Space:1999 stories on it.
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Sun Nov-21-04 08:20 PM
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14. Never saw it when young, |
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but we bought he DVDs when they came out, for completeness' sake. Pretty poorly done, but there are some solid ideas scattered around: the imbecilic politician cheats to get the chance to go back to Earth, but it all goes wrong when he wakes up in the "long sleep" chamber is the one that first comes to mind. And one of my perennial faves, Brian Blessed, is in two episodes :-)
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Mon Nov-22-04 12:13 AM
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15. I used to watch it obsessively |
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I'll have to make it a point to rent the dvds and jog my memories, see if I still enjoy it.
It did start my life-long obsession with Martin Landau.
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